09-27-2008, 12:30 PM
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday September 26, 2008
Chanting "Main Street first" and carrying signs and colorful umbrellas, a few hundred protesters marched in front of the White House on a rainy Thursday afternoon to demand the rejection of Treasury Secretary Paulson's Wall Street bailout plan.
The demonstration was one of hundreds organized by TrueMajority.com and UsAction and was timed to coincide with a meeting between President Bush and Congressional leaders.
According to the Boston Globe, "A coalition of groups calling itself the Main Street Coalition marched from the Treasury Department down Pennsylvania Avenue, chanting 'No deal for Wall Street, New Deal for Main Street' and handing out copies of a 'Taxpayer Invoice' for $700 billion."
Skip Roberts of the Service Employees International Union told the Globe, "Something has to be done, but this is going to be put on the backs of the average taxpayer when they had nothing to do with it."
According to Wired.com, the idea for the protests began with New York City journalist Arun Gupta, who last Sunday sent out an email urging a demonstration on Wall Street. The email quickly raced around the Net, author Naomi Klein posted it on her website, and "TrueMajority, a 700,000 member activist group headed by Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, sent out an action alert the next day."
"This was a convergence of everyone having the same thought at the same time," TrueMajority's online director Matt Holland told Wired.com. The protests are planned to continue into next week.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Protesters..._0926.html
Published: Friday September 26, 2008
Chanting "Main Street first" and carrying signs and colorful umbrellas, a few hundred protesters marched in front of the White House on a rainy Thursday afternoon to demand the rejection of Treasury Secretary Paulson's Wall Street bailout plan.
The demonstration was one of hundreds organized by TrueMajority.com and UsAction and was timed to coincide with a meeting between President Bush and Congressional leaders.
According to the Boston Globe, "A coalition of groups calling itself the Main Street Coalition marched from the Treasury Department down Pennsylvania Avenue, chanting 'No deal for Wall Street, New Deal for Main Street' and handing out copies of a 'Taxpayer Invoice' for $700 billion."
Skip Roberts of the Service Employees International Union told the Globe, "Something has to be done, but this is going to be put on the backs of the average taxpayer when they had nothing to do with it."
According to Wired.com, the idea for the protests began with New York City journalist Arun Gupta, who last Sunday sent out an email urging a demonstration on Wall Street. The email quickly raced around the Net, author Naomi Klein posted it on her website, and "TrueMajority, a 700,000 member activist group headed by Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, sent out an action alert the next day."
"This was a convergence of everyone having the same thought at the same time," TrueMajority's online director Matt Holland told Wired.com. The protests are planned to continue into next week.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Protesters..._0926.html
